Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
They do produce a few buds down there but it is your judgement call. When the inflorescence is 90+% done, brown, then I cut them.
Just don't cut them too far down the stem.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.